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...Abedi, who left B.C.C.I. last year after a stroke that followed a 1988 heart transplant, built his business on careful attention to the needs of top-drawer customers. In the bank's early days, B.C.C.I. officials in London could be roused in the middle of the night to make good on visiting sheiks' gambling losses. Abedi cultivated the friendship of former Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and other Third World leaders. "He was a collector of people," says a Pakistani journalist who has followed Abedi. "He used Zia as a calling card...
Founded in 1973 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a native of Pakistan, BCCI operates 400 branches in 73 countries. The bank is owned by just 51 shareholders, including members of the Saudi royal family. Among the BCCI officers arrested last week were top managers of the bank's Panamanian, Latin American and French divisions...
...from B.C.C.I. and a subsidiary. Lance said he used it last January to pay off his celebrated $3.4 million loan from the First National Bank of Chicago, and that was the only point on which he was definite. The latest loan, he said, was arranged by Agha Hassan Abedi, an energetic Pakistani who heads B.C.C.I. Collateral? None. Documents? Well, no, though Lance's lawyer, Robert Altman, says some are being drawn...
...fastest growing banks in Britain, BCCI has assets of more than $2 billion, much of it from Kuwait, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. The bank was founded in 1972 by innovative, hard-driving Agha Hasan Abedi, who left his native Pakistan five years ago, when the government nationalized banking. It was Abedi who got Lance together with Ghaith...
Lance has had several lengthy meetings with Abedi in recent months, and there have been persistent reports that Lance may join BCCI as a high officer. According to British bankers, Lance, Abedi and Pharaon have talked about creating a company that would be connected with BCCI and aimed primarily at channeling funds from the Middle East into investments in U.S. securities and real estate...